Sacramento County Biographies

J. O. SHERWOOD

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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COSUMNES TOWNSHIP. 
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	Farmer and stock-raiser; lives on the Sacramento and Dry Town 
road, twenty-five miles from Sacramento; owns seven hundred and thirty five 
acres of land, valued, with improvements, at $10,000; Post Office, Michigan Bar; 
born in South Richland, Oswego County, New York, in 1825; engaged in farming and 
teaching school until 1846 then went to New York City, and entered the 
mercantile house of J. O. & D. S. Bennett; in the fall of 1847 went to 
Wisconsin, where he remained until he crossed the plains to California, in 1850; 
followed mining in El Dorado County for a short time; moved to Michigan Bar, 
this county, in November, 1850; moved to present location in February, 1851, 
where he has since continued to reside. Mr. Sherwood has been engaged in mining, 
farming, stock-raising, fruit-growing, and keeping public house; married Miss 
Kate V. Bell, from Winchester, Scott County, Illinois, November 13, 1854; she 
died November 27, 1866; they had two sons, and three daughters; one daughter has 
since died. Married Miss Susan E. Woods, July 5, 1869; she was born in Barry, 
Pike County, Illinois; they have two daughters. Mr. Sherwood is Justice of the 
Peace; has occupied the office for about eight years; has also been School 
Trustee for several years.
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.